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...ng Earth stationary at the [[center]] of the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the '''Solar System'''. Beginning with the pu ...challenged the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelianism Aristotelian model] when he observed a [[comet]] that went through the region of the planets.

...[[Ptolemy]] proposed different cosmological theories. In particular, the [[geocentric]] [[Ptolemaic system]] was the accepted theory to explain the motion of the ...lf. On the one hand, Mount Wilson astronomer Harlow Shapley championed the model of a cosmos made up of the [[Milky Way]] star system only. [[Heber D. Curti

...] with the philosophical benefits of the [[Ptolemaic system]] into his own model of the universe, the [[Tychonic system]]. From [[1600]] until his death in ...model]] of the [[solar system]]. Tycho believed in a modified [[geocentric model]] known as the [[Tychonic system]], for the same reasons that he argued tha

In the last half century astronomers have developed the [[big bang]] model for the [[birth]], [[evolution]], and [[death]] of the universe. Modern cos ...ric [[cosmology]]. We unconsciously transformed egocentric psychology into geocentric cosmology. In contrast, the heliocentric view implied that the perceived [[

...the Moon and the stars rotating around it. This is known as the geocentric model of the universe. During the Renaissance, [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] proposed a [[heliocentric model]] of the [[solar system]]. His work was defended, expanded upon, and correc

...erse exists. Another more pragmatic problem is that there is no physical [[model]] which can explain the earliest moments of the universe's existence ([[Pla ...n themselves explain how the conditions of the universe that the equations model came to be in the first place.

...at the time, built of metal, and sheathed in polished aluminum. The basic model enclosed 90 m² (1000 square feet) of floor area. Due to publicity, there w ...y the Fuller family, replacing sunrise and sunset in order to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-Copernican celestial mechanics. Fuller also coined the phr